Christmas-eve and Easter-day and Other PoemsLothrop, 1886 - 175 pages |
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Abt Vogler architrave Baldachin beauty Behold believe borage breccia Browning's chapel choice choose Christ Christian Christmas-Eve Coleoptera creature dare dark Dark Tower David death Dionysus divine dost doubt dread dream earth earthly Easter-Day edition eternity evil eyes face faith fancies fear fire flesh Gallio gift give God's Göttingen Greek fire hand head heart heaven hope human human voice Julius Cæsar Karshish King Saul Lazarus leave life's light live looked Lord man's mighty mind nature night o'er once pain perfect poem poet Pope praise probation Queen Mab rest Robert Browning round saith Saul sense sheep Snake-stone song soul speaks spirit spoke stand stood struggle thee thing THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON thou art Thou hast truth turn twixt version omits Vespasian voice whence whole wonder word worship xvii
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Page 9 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
Page 165 - But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
Page 168 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 136 - E'en the serpent that slid away silent, — he felt the new law. The same stared in the white humid faces upturned by the flowers; The same worked in the heart of the cedar and moved the vine-bowers: And the little brooks witnessing murmured, persistent and low, With their obstinate, all but hushed voices— "E'en so, it is so!" AN EPISTLE CONTAINING THE STRANGE MEDICAL EXPERIENCE OF KARSHISH, THE ARAB PHYSICIAN.
Page 7 - Sorrow is hard to bear, and doubt is slow to clear, Each sufferer says his say, his scheme of the weal and woe: But God has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome: 'tis we musicians know.
Page 134 - Tis the weakness in strength that I cry for ! my flesh that I seek In the Godhead ! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee ; a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever : a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee ! See the Christ stand...
Page 111 - And so I live, you see, Go through the world, try, prove, reject, Prefer, still struggling to effect My warfare; happy that I can Be crossed and thwarted as a man, Not left in God's contempt apart, With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, Tame in earth's paddock as her prize.
Page 130 - And thus looking within and around me, I ever renew (With that stoop of the soul which in bending upraises it too) The submission of man's nothing-perfect to God's all-complete, As by each new obeisance in spirit, I climb to His feet.
Page 118 - Oh, our manhood's prime vigour ! no spirit feels waste, Not a muscle is stopped in its playing, nor sinew unbraced. Oh, the wild joys of living! the leaping from rock up to rock — The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, — the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, — the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
Page 152 - But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.